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3 Show embarrassment at having plenty of money (5)

8 Writer, 27, found alternative, in a good way (6)

9 Hostility at uni Sam provoked (6) 10 Damp reception for a Communist (6) 11 Regular flow of water seen at dusk (8) 12 Memory of sheep (3) 13 Somewhere to sleep with a big gun (6) 14 National authorisation to hand round afterdiner wine (8)

17 Comes out with electronic blends (7) 19 Be friend to Roman date, as a preference (7) 23 Relating fashion to figure (8)

27 Mad king’s on autopilot (6)

29 Edward returns to smaller than semidetached (3)

30 Treating ruling as a one-off (8)

31 Main road uses skill found on electric railway (6) 32 Silver seen in bog? Illusion (6)

33 In this way, be dependent _ in a way that hurts (6)

34 Sir Walter sounded off at motor event (5)

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1 District attorney upset, given clumsy care in gaming facility (6)

2 Riot made by innovation of peacemaker (8) 3 How does apartment measure up? It’s a fixed charge (4,4)

4 Scruffy punk met trouble (7)

5 Talks rubbish to those 3 who take in rubbish at first (6)

6 Outsize apparel for use in circus (3,3) 7 Unlawfully kill _ put down _ racehorse (6) 13 Table motion about complaint (5) 15 Record taken from ewe, not 12 (3) 16 Flower clock reported (5)

18 Dog I nearly caught in trap (3)

20 Deity arising on day is embraced as flower (3,5) 21 Those who’ ve take non board changes to poster ad (8) 22 Genuine inclusion of three fold prefix results in another appearance in court (7) 24 Bringing up endless fruit ... (6)

25 ... from even case of cherry tree found in sea (6)

26 He plays for leg movement (6)

28 Mess up description of clothes the French

put on (6)